Sunday, December 17, 2017
Nerd communication skills
As my readers know I have an almost
nerdish obsession in my writing with being very succinct and trying to make
complicated things simple, which seems to be the opposite of the miscommunications of the nerds, who have been enjoying an almost chic acceptance since the dawn
of the computer age. This may be one of the reason why I have about
lost patience with nerd communication skills. I think the best
advice a writer (or any kind of communicator) can get is that writing should
illuminate, not obfuscate, which I think came from one of the early
modernist poets, of all people.
If the nerd is actually unable
to be understood due to obsessions caused by, say, the Asperger
syndrome, that could be given consideration. Even so, a natural
selection process should be taking place where the nerds who do learn
to communicate are chosen and those who cannot are allowed to remain
in there cubicles.
This is one more example of why
traditional conservatism is better than libertarianism. Laissez faire
can be inspiring but there comes a time when it
becomes negatively indulgent. I think the general libertarianism in
the U.S.A. has allowed the nerds to expect or even demand that
others to do the work they should be doing themselves to be
understood, which is just plain selfish behavior...The truly great minds were great largely because they made formerly complicated things simple.
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